Big Idea: Career-life decisions are influenced by internal and external factors, including local and global trends.

Students will learn about work habits that can help them succeed in any career.

Students will learn and demonstrate skills required in a career of interest.

Students will learn about potential careers of the future and create their own job description.

Students will learn the importance of computer programming skills across a variety of career areas and how these skills can make them more employable.

Students will explore career profiles and relate them to what they are learning in science class.

Students learn how the STEM skills that they develop in class apply to future career options. 

Students will explore STEM career sectors and the skills required for a variety of STEM careers.

Students will explore how STEM skills are needed in non-STEM careers.

Students will take inventory of their Global Competency skills, reflect on their strengths, and set next steps for mastery of these skills.

Through hands-on activities, students will distinguish how social and work situations require both verbal and non-verbal means of communication.

Students will use online tools and job search engines to explore career possibilities and the job market.

Students will further develop their understanding and appreciation of the importance of personal interests, skills, achievements as well as previous job skills and experiences to the career development process.

Students will develop the understanding that there are many things that influence a person’s career choice.